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  • Alors Peut-être que quelque vieillard aux cheveux blancs dirait :

    Literary translation (English) Rene Meertens 2010

  • Un bon vieillard qui passait par là s'arrête pour le contempler.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • United States in 1840, paid a visit to Mr. Gallatin in that year, and describes him as a "beau vieillard de quatre-vingt ans," who has fully preserved his faculties.

    Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens

  • "La paix honteuse fut dommageable," says Tavannes; "les associez y furent trahis, les capitaines abandonnez à leurs ennemis, le sang, la vie de tant de Français negligée, cent cinquante forteresses rendues, pour tirer de prison un vieillard connestable, et se descharger de deux filles de France."

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

  • A fine-looking _vieillard_, with clean-cut waxen features and white flowing moustaches, who wore his brown velvet jacket and sombrero with an air, walked by erect and slow, taking what he could of his belongings on a wheel-barrow.

    Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

  • Car le jeune homme est beau, mais le vieillard est grand.

    Booz endormi 1920

  • Ce vieillard possédait des champs de blés et d’orge; 5

    Booz endormi 1920

  • Le vieillard, qui revient vers la source première,

    Booz endormi 1920

  • Un vieillard vient s’asseoir sur le seuil attiédi,

    La Vache 1920

  • Mais dans l’œil du vieillard on voit de la lumière.

    Booz endormi 1920

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